Tips And Options For Pillar Candles
Bring romance back into your bedroom or even your bathroom by purchasing pillar candles.
These types of candles include one or more wicks that produce a faint light that creates a romantic or soothing ambiance in your bedroom, bathroom, and living room or even at the dinner table.
Pillar candles resemble architectural pillars in that they are often tall and have larger girths than the stick candles commonly placed in candelabras.
These candles come in a variety of heights and diameters, with some candles available in oval, rectangular or other odd shapes.
You may find pillar candles between three and 24 inches tall or taller and with various diameters, from candles the size of soda cans to those with diameters as large as an entire foot.
Other options when choosing pillar candles including scented and unscented varieties, along with numerous color options.
While many pillar candles are available in white or off-white shades to more easily match the decor of your home, you can also locate these candles in shades of red, pink, green, blue, purple, orange and various other colors.
Many time candle makers will sync the color of the candle with scent they place in the candle.
While unscented candles are available in various scents, you may have trouble finding a strawberry scented in shades of green because such candles are generally made in shades of pink and red.
However, if you know a candle maker, you may specify that you want a specific scent you love, with a color to match the decor of a room or your home.
To burn these types of candles in your home, you will need a candle holder to prevent wax from spilling out of the candle and onto your furniture, leaving heat marks and possibly ruining carpeting and fabrics.
You can purchase candleholders in various sizes to match the diameter of your candle, and in hundreds of designs, from tile, glass and even flat or concaved mirrors.
If you do not use a candleholder, the wax may spill down the sides of the candle and create a mess on your furniture.
Instead of candleholders, you may also use common household items as stands for your pillar candles.
Items you may use for this purpose include old CD's, plates, bowls and even squares of cardboard.
Another tool you may need to purchase when choosing to burn pillar candles in your home is a long-stemmed lighter or a pack of long-stemmed matches.
You will need these to help you light the pillar candles once you have burnt it several times and created a hole or channel down through the center of the candle.
Unfortunately, pillar candles do not always burn evenly or spill out over the sides and down the candle, so many times you must try to light a wick buried down inside the candle.
Reaching the wick with a regular match or lighter often proves difficult and a long-stemmed lighter or match provides a solution for this problem.
These types of candles include one or more wicks that produce a faint light that creates a romantic or soothing ambiance in your bedroom, bathroom, and living room or even at the dinner table.
Pillar candles resemble architectural pillars in that they are often tall and have larger girths than the stick candles commonly placed in candelabras.
These candles come in a variety of heights and diameters, with some candles available in oval, rectangular or other odd shapes.
You may find pillar candles between three and 24 inches tall or taller and with various diameters, from candles the size of soda cans to those with diameters as large as an entire foot.
Other options when choosing pillar candles including scented and unscented varieties, along with numerous color options.
While many pillar candles are available in white or off-white shades to more easily match the decor of your home, you can also locate these candles in shades of red, pink, green, blue, purple, orange and various other colors.
Many time candle makers will sync the color of the candle with scent they place in the candle.
While unscented candles are available in various scents, you may have trouble finding a strawberry scented in shades of green because such candles are generally made in shades of pink and red.
However, if you know a candle maker, you may specify that you want a specific scent you love, with a color to match the decor of a room or your home.
To burn these types of candles in your home, you will need a candle holder to prevent wax from spilling out of the candle and onto your furniture, leaving heat marks and possibly ruining carpeting and fabrics.
You can purchase candleholders in various sizes to match the diameter of your candle, and in hundreds of designs, from tile, glass and even flat or concaved mirrors.
If you do not use a candleholder, the wax may spill down the sides of the candle and create a mess on your furniture.
Instead of candleholders, you may also use common household items as stands for your pillar candles.
Items you may use for this purpose include old CD's, plates, bowls and even squares of cardboard.
Another tool you may need to purchase when choosing to burn pillar candles in your home is a long-stemmed lighter or a pack of long-stemmed matches.
You will need these to help you light the pillar candles once you have burnt it several times and created a hole or channel down through the center of the candle.
Unfortunately, pillar candles do not always burn evenly or spill out over the sides and down the candle, so many times you must try to light a wick buried down inside the candle.
Reaching the wick with a regular match or lighter often proves difficult and a long-stemmed lighter or match provides a solution for this problem.